{"id":185,"date":"2005-05-10T08:52:26","date_gmt":"2005-05-10T16:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=168"},"modified":"2005-05-10T08:52:26","modified_gmt":"2005-05-10T16:52:26","slug":"todays-lesson-from-isaiah-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2005\/05\/10\/todays-lesson-from-isaiah-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#039;s Lesson from Isaiah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/index.php?search=isaiah%2058&#038;version1=31\">Isaiah 58<\/a> contrasts true and false worship.  False worship involves religious observance &#8212; &#8220;bowing one&#8217;s head like a reed&#8221; &#8212; but &#8220;ends in quarreling and strife&#8221; and evidences no concern for others.  In contrast, true worship is reflected primarily in our actions towards the poor and oppressed:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIs not this the kind of fasting I have chosen:<br \/>\nto lose the chains of injustice<br \/>\nand untie the cords of the yoke,<br \/>\nto set the oppressed free<br \/>\nand break every yoke?<br \/>\nIs it not to share your food with the hungry<br \/>\nand to provide the poor wanderer with shelter&#8211;<br \/>\nwhen you see the naked, to clothe him,<br \/>\nand not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?<br \/>\n(Isaiah 58:6-7)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Forgive me, O God, for bowing my head without also reaching out my hands to those in need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isaiah 58 contrasts true and false worship. False worship involves religious observance &#8212; &#8220;bowing one&#8217;s head like a reed&#8221; &#8212; but &#8220;ends in quarreling and strife&#8221; and evidences no concern for others. In contrast, true worship is reflected primarily in our actions towards the poor and oppressed: Is not this the kind of fasting I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spirituality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-2Z","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}